Politics
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Wednesday, July 29, 2020 16:55 - 0 Comments
Comment | The UK military has a racism problem, but can it be decolonised?
Without a national reckoning and the political will to face our colonial past and abandon the violent obligations of a junior partnership with the US, decolonising our military seems unlikely, writes Joe Glenton.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Wednesday, July 1, 2020 17:35 - 2 Comments
Comment | Israel’s Annexation Plan: The UK government must stop putting arms sales ahead of the rights and lives of Palestinians
Israel's proposed annexation of parts of the West Bank is a grave violation and injustice against the people of Palestine. The UK's rhetorical objections are not enough, there must be an end to UK arms sales to Israel and the message of political and military support that they send, writes Andrew Smith.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 15:27 - 6 Comments
Comment | Let’s Measure the Exact Angle: A Palestinian Perspective on the Maxine Peake controversy
"Why is nobody asking us, the Palestinians, what we think?" Author and playwright Ahmed Masoud offers his perspective on the Maxine Peake controversy.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, May 29, 2020 10:47 - 3 Comments
Comment | Why it’s your civic duty not to download the UK’s contact tracing app
Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson are trying to persuade us that it’s our civic duty to take part in their Covid-19 ‘test and track’ programme. But their approach - based on secrecy, exceptionalism and deception - means our civic duty may well be to resist the programme actively, argues Paul Bernal.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:17 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Against Crisis Mentality
The Covid19 pandemic has exposed many of the social and economic contradictions underlying our normality. Adopting a short-termist crisis mentality in our response cannot be the answer, writes Nora Ziegler.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, May 11, 2020 13:19 - 1 Comment
Comment | Nobody ‘deserves’ to be tasered
Last week, footage emerged of a father being tasered by police in front of his child. The mixed public reaction to the incident has been a reminder of how pervasive acceptance of 'justified' violence remains in Britain, writes Roxy Legane.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, April 30, 2020 15:45 - 1 Comment
Comment | Mike Ashley, MBS and Newcastle United: A Rotten Deal
In seeking to buy Newcastle United, MBS is trying to use football to rebuild and rehabilitate an appalling global reputation. Even at this late hour, Ashley and his colleagues can still put human rights above profits and say no to this appalling deal, writes Andrew Smith.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, April 24, 2020 17:57 - 0 Comments
Comment | The UK media got the Labour Antisemitism story wrong: Will they admit it?
The leaked Labour anti-semitism report provides an unrivalled test of integrity for the British media, writes Justin Schlosberg.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, April 11, 2020 10:29 - 0 Comments
Comment | Slogans are not enough, our NHS workers need to be protected
If we really care about our healthcare workers we should move beyond 'angels and heroes' sloganeering, and help them resist their exploitation, writes D. Hunter.
New in Ceasefire, Notes from the Margins, Politics - Friday, April 10, 2020 21:50 - 2 Comments
Notes from the Margins | Clap for Boris? You must be joking
In framing a negligent prime minister as a symbol of our collective national resilience, the #ClapforBoris narrative is an attempt to obfuscate the government’s very real failings at a time when the human cost of its COVID-19 errors is becoming horribly apparent, writes Matt Carr.
